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💸 A banned account never sends you an invoice, but if it did, the total would surprise most teams.

The obvious line is the account itself. The expensive ones are the lines nobody tracks: the ad budget already burned on it, the weeks of reputation and warm-up gone overnight, the audiences and history lost with the login, the team hours spent on appeals and rebuilds.

An IP per account is one predictable line on the balance sheet. A ban is an open-ended one.

Protect your accounts before the bill arrives.

Get a $3 free test credit through Astro support

🆕 New guide: how to get recommended on TikTok and get millions of views

A complete guide to TikTok promotion in 2026.

We cover everything that affects reach:
▪️ how the For You algorithm works;
▪️ how to increase retention, engagement, and TikTok SEO;
▪️ how to scale accounts through proxies;
▪️ which mistakes kill views.

🎯 Checklist inside – check your video before publishing and increase your chances of getting recommended on TikTok.

📖 Read the guide via the link

🆕 New case study: a working Instagram parser in Python with Astro proxies

A ready-to-use solution for anyone who wants to run Instagram scraping without the usual rate limits and blocks.

In this case study we show how to:
▪️ set up a Python parser with Astro proxies;
▪️ handle Instagram's redirects and restrictions;
▪️ avoid common mistakes, including HTTP 429;
▪️ pull profile data with BeautifulSoup.

Inside – ready-made code examples you can drop straight into your own project.

📖 Read the guide

🎬 The same YouTube search can return different results depending on your location.

If you're researching a foreign market from your own country, you're not seeing what local users see.
Use residential IPs in your target location to collect accurate YouTube data.

With Astro proxies you get:
▪️ 50M residential and mobile IPs across 150 countries;
▪️ Сountry, city, and ISP-level targeting;
▪️ Сontrolled IP rotation for large-scale research.

🌐 Run your YouTube research from the right location.

Get $3 free test credit via Astro Support

🆕 New article – Astro API: documentation and request examples

If you work with a large number of proxies, the API lets you manage them directly via HTTPS requests, without the website.

In the new article:
▪️ What a proxy service API is and why it's needed;
▪️ Astro API commands – retrieving account balance, the list of ports and renewing a port;
▪️ How to get a new external IP for a port;
▪️ Retrieving available countries, cities and operators;
▪️ Calculating port cost via the API.

📖 Full documentation and request examples

MyBid – traffic that scales easily and brings real profit

🛜 MyBid is an ad network with 5+ billion daily impressions, 200+ GEOs, and 5 ad formats (push, popunder, in‑page, banner, video).

Why MyBid works for affiliates:
• massive volumes for top verticals (dating, VPN, utilities, gambling, betting, adult)
• real‑time stats, whitelists/blacklists
• in‑house anti‑fraud engine
• extra monetization up to +30%
• fast and responsive support

⚡️ MyBid has launched a special partner offer for the World Cup 2026 – premium audiences for sports campaigns, engaged users, and event-driven traffic. Find out more on the MyBid website.

Try MyBid and get a +15% top-up bonus with the promo code Astro15 to your first deposit from $100 to $3000, valid until 16.06.2027.

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Instagram for SMM, affiliate marketing, agencies and brands means dozens of accounts, different tasks but shared risks.

In the new article:
▪️ What tasks proxies are used for when working with Instagram;
▪️ Which proxy types are suited for IG;
▪️ Why free proxies kill Instagram accounts;
▪️ A checklist for choosing proxies for Instagram.

📖 Open the full guide

🆕 New article: Vibe Coding for Beginners: How to Build Apps with AI in 2026

Today, you can create an app simply by describing what you want in natural language. But what happens when your AI project needs to go beyond code and interact with real-world websites and data?

Our new article explains:
• What vibe coding is and which tools lead in 2026.
• How AI agents change the game.
• When AI projects start needing residential proxies.
• Real-world proxy use cases, including SERP analysis, browser automation, and localized testing.

Explore the full guide on the Astro blog.

Claude Fable 5 – the first publicly available Mythos-class model

Until now, technology at this level stayed closed due to cybersecurity risks. The longer and more complex the task, the wider the gap from other models.

Example: the new model migrated a 50M-line codebase in a single day instead of two months of work by an entire team 🔥

⚠️ Important! Requests on sensitive topics (egs.: cybersecurity, biology, chemistry) are automatically routed to Claude Opus 4.8.

🌎 Geo-restrictions: Anthropic is unavailable from Russia, Belarus, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, the DR Congo and a number of other countries.

The Astro proxy infrastructure solution: residential IPs consistently pass Anthropic's anti-fraud checks – unlike datacenter addresses and most VPNs.
▪️ choose country, city and provider across 150 countries;
▪️ controlled IP rotation;
▪️ $3 free test credit via Astro support.

One IP for the entire team?

Imagine an agency running several clients at once. One specialist works with accounts in the US, another launches ads for a client in Germany and a third manages a project in the UK.

As a company grows, several employees and dozens of accounts often keep using the same IP addresses. At first it feels like a convenient solution, but over time it can lead to bans and blocks.

What do professional teams do?
▪️ Use a separate port for each account;
▪️ Run a unified proxy infrastructure for each project.

⚠️ The key rule: IP addresses should be tied not to employees, but to accounts and projects.

Build your projects on our proxy infrastructure

🔥 Astro + Dolphin{anty}

When managing a large number of accounts, every detail matters.

We recommend taking a look at Dolphin{anty} – an antidetect browser that handles everything at the browser level.

Each profile gets a unique fingerprint: platforms see separate users, not a single source running dozens of accounts. Beyond profile isolation, the antidetect offers:

🟣Convenient management of browser profiles
🟣Fast switching between accounts without unnecessary steps
🟣Automation via scenarios
🟣Built-in tools, including a parser
🟣Flexible team collaboration
🟣Regular updates and feature development

Reach out to your manager – they'll help you find the right plan for your needs.

📌 Network level – covered by Astro partners: 50M IPs collected in compliance with KYC and AML policies. Suitable for traffic arbitrage, media buying, and e-commerce.

🔹 150 countries with city and ISP-level targeting
🔹 HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 support
🔹 99.9% uptime
🔹 Controlled IP rotation

⚠️ The more accounts you run, the more IPs you may need.

Need to separate accounts, processes and GEO across individual IP addresses and reduce overlap between your workflows?

👆 In the infographic we show 5 common signals that it's time to set up proxies.

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500 servers. One test. Total paralysis.

Sooner or later, every modern business realizes that proxy infrastructure isn't a "minor technical detail." Some figure it out after a few unusual entries in their logs. Others – when hundreds of servers go silent all at once.

🗯 That's exactly what happened at a large healthcare network. A routine proxy shutdown test – five minutes of work. And suddenly critical systems stopped responding. It turned out all traffic was routed through the proxy: software updates, API calls to external services, dozens of background processes the infrastructure simply couldn't function without.
⚠️ The result – hundreds of thousands of dollars in downtime costs, an internal crisis and months spent rebuilding client trust.

All because no one knew what exactly was passing through the proxy and how dependent the business was on its network stack.

With Astro, you can rely on your proxy infrastructure even on the day of "that" test 🤝

🤔 Still Need 100 Real Phones for Your 100+ Accounts?
DuoPlus Cloud Phone is Coming!

As multi-account operations scale, three challenges keep coming up:

❓ Worried about account linking and bans?

Real ARM devices with dedicated IPs and isolated environments. One phone, one IP, one account.

❓ Still hiring people for repetitive account tasks?

Control multiple devices from a single dashboard. With AI + RPA automation, repetitive actions can be executed in batches, reducing manual work and improving operational efficiency.

❓ Need an easier way to grow TikTok, Instagram, Telegram accounts?

From account registration and cloud numbers to long-term account warm-up and daily operations, DuoPlus provides the tools needed to support TikTok, Instagram, Telegram, and other multi-account workflows.

The trend is clear: fewer devices, less manual work, and more scalable operations.

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Timer-based IP rotation: why we recommend setting the interval at least 15% longer than the visit duration

The goal is to make IP rotation look natural to anti-fraud systems.

A single user visit should appear as a complete session:
▪️ landed on the site;
▪️ spent a few minutes browsing;
▪️ finished the session;
▪️ and only then the IP changed.

That's why we recommend:
✅ rotating IPs via a link – after the task is completed;
✅ or setting timer-based rotation with at least a +15% buffer above the average visit duration.

Example: if the average visit lasts 10 minutes, set the rotation interval to 11.5–12 minutes.

⚠️ If the IP changes too frequently (especially within a single session), it looks unnatural to search engines and anti-bot systems – and increases the risk of detection.

Need help choosing the right rotation interval? Contact our support team

In our previous post, we covered the use cases for Astro proxies – now let's break down our rotation modes.

The external proxy IP changes according to the selected mode:

1. On a timer.
The IP rotates automatically at a defined interval (from 1 minute).

2. A new IP address for each new connection.
Each new connection receives a new IP address.

3. Manual IP rotation via link or dashboard button.
Link-based control is also available through the API.

What's important to know about Astro proxy rotation:
🔹 one port supports up to 250 concurrent TCP connections;
🔹 rotation rules are set when the port is created, but can be modified anytime by editing the port settings.

👍 – Tell me more about timer-based rotation
🔥 – How to rotate IPs via a link?
💯 – All of the above!